by the way, i made it through the day
(note: the stuff behind the cut is going to be my ranting/complaining/whining about how crappy the personnel skills of my current employer are.)
(and yes, I realize I wrote that in very, very bad English.)
(I don't care.)
Most of the field guys are gone, their trucks parked. Most of the admin staff has been gone three weeks. Offices have been shut down, uniforms turned in, phones shut off.
I thought there was nothing else you could do.
Silly me.
"I need to to come into the conference room for a minute with X & Y." He must have seen the look on my face, for the next words were "Don't worry, you're not being fired." He almost smiled.
(No, because if you did that, I would be able to put in for Unemployment at least. And have a valid excuse for looking for a new job. But I'm getting ahead of myself...)
So, five minutes later found the scant remains of the admin staff in the conference room with the Big Boss. "You all have done a great job these last three weeks, done a lot of great work, but..."
I didn't catch much of it after two of us were told we were going to 4 day weeks. And no, not 4 10-hour days. More like 32 hours.
Actually, very much like 32 hours.
I did catch the part when he said we weren't to have our phones on, but make sure our contact information is up to date - which is when it started to hurt.
You don't want us available...don't want us there...yet in case something happens, you want to find us?
WTF?
And, besides the phone business, why on God's Green Earth did you find it necessary to have all of us in there to share what was (at least for me) a rather personal thing of being told you're going to be paid 20% less, work fewer hours, but oh, we expect just as much out of you?
And you had the nerve to say this is only 'temporary' - only a couple of weeks. Yea, right.
Did you tell the guys laid-off that, too?
And when did you tell my direct supervisor? And everyone else I work with? Or am I just that stuck in my lonely little cubicle that I don't hear these things going around?
The annoying part - everyone telling me "At least you still have your job." Bah. What I have is limbo. I'm not laid-off (so I can't collect unemployment-for what it's worth), I can't take my vacation time, I still have a metric ton of work to do, and I have no choice of which day I'm being banished from the office every week.
Though, on the bright side, I am figuring out pretty quickly what to do with my free time - besides getting my truck fixed...
(and yes, I realize I wrote that in very, very bad English.)
(I don't care.)
Most of the field guys are gone, their trucks parked. Most of the admin staff has been gone three weeks. Offices have been shut down, uniforms turned in, phones shut off.
I thought there was nothing else you could do.
Silly me.
"I need to to come into the conference room for a minute with X & Y." He must have seen the look on my face, for the next words were "Don't worry, you're not being fired." He almost smiled.
(No, because if you did that, I would be able to put in for Unemployment at least. And have a valid excuse for looking for a new job. But I'm getting ahead of myself...)
So, five minutes later found the scant remains of the admin staff in the conference room with the Big Boss. "You all have done a great job these last three weeks, done a lot of great work, but..."
I didn't catch much of it after two of us were told we were going to 4 day weeks. And no, not 4 10-hour days. More like 32 hours.
Actually, very much like 32 hours.
I did catch the part when he said we weren't to have our phones on, but make sure our contact information is up to date - which is when it started to hurt.
You don't want us available...don't want us there...yet in case something happens, you want to find us?
WTF?
And, besides the phone business, why on God's Green Earth did you find it necessary to have all of us in there to share what was (at least for me) a rather personal thing of being told you're going to be paid 20% less, work fewer hours, but oh, we expect just as much out of you?
And you had the nerve to say this is only 'temporary' - only a couple of weeks. Yea, right.
Did you tell the guys laid-off that, too?
And when did you tell my direct supervisor? And everyone else I work with? Or am I just that stuck in my lonely little cubicle that I don't hear these things going around?
The annoying part - everyone telling me "At least you still have your job." Bah. What I have is limbo. I'm not laid-off (so I can't collect unemployment-for what it's worth), I can't take my vacation time, I still have a metric ton of work to do, and I have no choice of which day I'm being banished from the office every week.
Though, on the bright side, I am figuring out pretty quickly what to do with my free time - besides getting my truck fixed...